ladybird/Base/usr/share/man/man1/ldd.md
Liav A 658f9eec6a Utilities: Introduce the ldd utility
This utility lets a user to figure out what are the dependency libraries
for an ELF dynamic object, whether it's a dynamically loaded executable
or dynamically loaded library.
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Name

ldd - list dynamic dependencies

Synopsis

$ ldd [-r] [-f] <path>

Description

ldd prints all dependency libraries of an ELF object.

Options

  • -f, --force-without-valid-interpreter: Force library resolving on ELF object without a valid interpreter
  • -r, --max-recursion: Max library resolving recursion

Arguments

  • path: Path to ELF object

Security

In contrast to other OS implementations, the ldd binary is completely safe for usage on untrusted binaries - we only use the LibELF code for doing library resolving, and the actual binary interpreter (when specified) is never called to decode the dependency information.

Examples

# List all dependency libraries for libc.so
$ ldd -f /usr/lib/libc.so
# List all dependency libraries for /bin/id
$ ldd /bin/id
# List all dependency libraries for /bin/WindowServer
$ ldd /bin/WindowServer